What's New in 15.00 for Unity Ecosystem Manager

UDA

The UDA channel is for Teradata’s Unified Data Architecture including the Analytical Ecosystem and other UDA influences. This channel provides information specific to the integration and co-existence of multiple systems, in particular when a mix of Aster, Teradata, and Hadoop are present. It is also meant to support information around the UDA enabling technologies so products like Viewpoint, Data Mover, Connectors, QueryGrid, etc.

What's New in 15.00 for Unity Ecosystem Manager

Unity Ecosystem Manager is part of the Teradata Unity portfolio of products supporting multi-system Teradata Environments. While part of the Unity portfolio, it can also be leveraged as an event-driven system for efficient monitoring, alerting and control of an entire analytic environment (Applications, Servers, Jobs, Tables) for a single Teradata, Aster or Hadoop system.

The Unity Ecosystem Manager 15.00 release focus was on Viewpoint 15.00 and Teradata Database 15.00 release certification. This was a Unity Ecosystem Manager 14.10 Maintenance release relabeled to reflect Teradata Database 15.00 compatibility. The primary functional change was making the Ecosystem Manager versatile explorer dashboard Viewpoint 15.00 compliant. Viewpoint 15.00 included significant User Interface changes such that existing Viewpoint portlets were no longer compatible with the release. As a result, all Products that have Viewpoint Portlet dependencies required updates to be compatible with this new release.

Re: What's New in 15.00 for Unity Ecosystem Manager

The 15.00 release of Unity Ecosystem Manager was somewhat limited in content as the focus was to support the Teradata Database and Viewpoint 15.00 releases. I would suggest reviewing two other articles posted to this site on Unity Ecosystem Manager and both are related to the Unity Ecosystem Manager 14.10 release. This release had significant content and the articles provide further product details. A brochure is also available at the following link

Re: What's New in 15.00 for Unity Ecosystem Manager

There are many customers leveraging Data Mover and Ecosystem Manager to keep their DR system in sync with production (within a given latency measured in hours not minutes).

First, Ecosystem Manager has a full complemented of table comparison tools that can be deployed against multiple Teradata systems. Table comparisons can be as simple as row count or more complex using a validation expression against multiple columns. The validation can be run against the full table or query banded for partial comparison. The comparisons can be run manually, event driven or scheduled. If two tables are found to be out of sync, Ecosystem Manager can send an Email alert and/or trigger a script such as a data mover job to bring the tables back in sync.

The control aspects of Ecosystem Manager provide the ability to instrument some basic workflows. Since Ecosystem Manager can be triggered by ETL start/step and end events for load jobs, those events could trigger the execution of a DM script to copy a table over to the DR system. The completion of the DM script can trigger another event where the Table validation is executed against the two tables and if still out of sync, notify the DBA through email that further action may be required.

This will require instrumentation and PS is highly skilled in supporting such efforts.